Crossing with care: bogs, streams and assistive mobilities as family praxis in the countryside

Laurier, Eric, Dunkley, Ria, Smith, Thomas Aneurin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7221-1868 and Reeves, Stuart 2021. Crossing with care: bogs, streams and assistive mobilities as family praxis in the countryside. Gesprächsforschung: Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion 22 , pp. 544-568.

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Abstract

In this paper, we use ethnomethodology, membership categorisation analysis, and conversation analysis (EMCA) to investigate traversing obstacles in outdoor environments as reflexively constitutive of producing, resisting and adjusting family relationships. We look at how relationship categories are a resource to be drawn upon in organising intercorporeal mobile actions. When faced with obstacles, group members offer, recruit, request or reject assistance, through altered bodily movements, in relation to obstacles. The assistance offered is constituted through, literally, lending a hand in finely coordinated and adjusted forms of contact and support. We locate the significance of assisting practices that are made relevant by these relationships (e.g. adult-child) and how such practices are intertwined with perceiving the local environment (e.g. rivers, the terrain underfoot). The data are video recordings of families walking through the countryside and assisting one another in crossing obstacles. Our findings on the organisation and accountability of traversing, through touch, gesture and talk, contribute to studies of family practices, mobility, and inter-corporeality.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Language other than English:	German
Publisher:	Verlag für Gesprächsforschung
ISSN:	1617–1837
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	12 May 2021
Date of Acceptance:	5 May 2021
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2024 11:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/141248

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